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Fans of the long running Subaru WRX wagon and not-so-long running STI wagon were both shocked and hurt when the 2015 WRX and STI debuted as sedans only. To industry insider types, this move was particularly shocking , as the approximately 16,000 WRX sales per year in the U.S. are split evenly between sedan and wagon, while 2013 STI sales broke down to about 2000 STI sedans and 1000 STI wagons. By not doing a five-door, Subaru is therefor effectively turning its back on half its customers. The official party line is that it’s just too expensive to develop both.

However, earlier this month we reported that Subaru is considering bringing a hatchback (properly called wagon in the Subie universe) version of the WRX to market. As told to an Australian reporter by a Subaru project manager named Masuo Takatsu, “We have received strong interest from the U.S., where the hatchback was 50 percent [of previous-generation WRX] sales, so we’re now considering [a new hatchback].”

Turns out that Subaru USA was as surprised by what Takatsu said as we were. So they called their colleagues in Japan to discuss the situation. Long story short according to our source, there is no Subaru WRX wagon under consideration. What about the Australian report and Takatsu-san’s comments? Some sort of mistranslation or misinterpretation went down Down Under.